Ba zing ...ok zMan, I agree I write Assembler, C ...on the MF ..I agree 
..multi-tasking is a bit rough

Scott ford
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On Feb 16, 2013, at 4:14 PM, zMan <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Scott Ford <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Thomas,
>> 
>> I don't follow, writing in several languages , what awkward to do in
>> cobol, supervisory stuff yes for sure.
>> 
> 
> Yoda? Is that you? :-)
> 
> If this was supposed to be asking "What is it that's awkward to do in
> COBOL?", try calculating the offset between two data elements. For one. I
> know that every time I go to write something in it, I run up against "You
> just can't do that in this language" and my response is "Seriously? Wow."
> (OK, or I write an assembler function to enable what I need...)
> 
> Admittedly, COBOL isn't as bad as I'd been led to believe by three decades
> of avoiding it -- but as the saying goes, "You can write your program in
> <pick a language>, or you can write a story about your program in COBOL".
> -- 
> zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it"
> 
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